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To: elmatador who wrote (46859)3/2/2004 12:38:10 PM
From: Mary Cluney  Read Replies (1) of 74559
 
elmatador,

<<<There are a lot of useless immigrants seeking only the easy goodies governments lavish on their citizens.

This causes a backlash against immigrants who are seen - as MQ points- as comnpeting with the locals for the goodies delivered to the locals.>>>

That has to be the exception. I can't imagine immigrants crossing borders, trekking a long way, so they can wait in a hospital emergency room to get free treatment. Or, enter a country just so the kids could get a free public education.

I just have not seen any of this (people getting something for nothing). But I do see a lot of Mexicans working in the kitchens of restaurants in the big cities of the US. and it is not just New York City, but Chicago, everywhere in California, and just about every big city in America.

Without these workers, a lot of businesses in the US could not function. It is amazing how these workers can work 12 hour days, 7 days a week at minimum wage and still save enough money to send home to Mexico.

My sense is that these workers are a huge net plus to the US economy. I don't see them competing with anyone who really wants to work.

I know there are a lot of resentment against these people, but I think most of it is unhealthy emotions.

Mary
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